Some of the extracurricular activities offered at IA's central campus include FIRST Robotics ; buildOn ( formerly known as Building with Books ); Science Olympiad ; scuba diving classes and international dive trips ; Biology and Physics Olympiads ; Political Debate Club ; Model United Nations ; Quiz Bowl ; the Phoenix Theatre Company ; Forensics ; various ethnic organizations such as the Indian-American Student Association, the Asian Student Association, and the Black Student Association ; religious organizations such as the Christian Student Initiative and the Muslim Student Association ; a Gay-Straight-Whatever Alliance ; an active photography club ; DECA ; and various environmental groups.

There are many clubs dedicated to different languages and cultures, such as the Spanish and Latino Students ' Association ( SALSA ), Asian Pacific American Club ( APAC ), Indian-American Student Association ( IASA ), Muslim Student Association ( MSA ), Arab Student Association, Gay-Straight Alliance ( GSA ), Secular Student Alliance, and the Diversity Council.

Asra Quratulain Nomani ( born 1965 ) is an Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist, known as an activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements.

Indian Muslim scholars issued a fatwā of death against Taslima Nasreen, an exiled controversial Bangladeshi writer.

Consequently, no orthodox Muslim writer accepts the Gospel of Barnabas as transmitting the authentic Injil, and few deny that the known Italian text contains substantial elements of late fabrication.

* 1965 – Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer

* Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer

* Ibn Qutaibah, Muslim writer

In his 1821 play, Almansor, the German writer Heinrich Heine — referring to the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Qur ' an, during the Spanish Inquisition — wrote, " Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.

Among the first to make the demand for a separate state was the writer and philosopher Allama Iqbal, who, in his presidential address to the 1930 convention of the Muslim League, proposed a separate nation for Muslims was essential in an otherwise Hindu-dominated Indian subcontinent.

The Abbé traveled to Beyrouth ( Beirut, Lebanon ) in 1959, to assist in the creation of the first multiconfessional Emmaus group there ; it was founded by a Sunni ( Muslim ), a Melkite ( Catholic ) archbishop and a Maronite ( Christian ) writer.

* Zhang Chengzhi, Hui Muslim writer and author of History of the Soul.

The most liberal Muslim intellectuals who focused on religious reform include Muhammad Ali ( writer ), Sayyid al-Qimni, Nasr Abu Zayd, Abdolkarim Soroush, Mohammed Arkoun, Mohammed Shahrour, Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Edip Yuksel, Gamal al-Banna, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na ' im, Ahmed Al-Gubbanchi, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, and Faraj Foda, the last two were killed after apostasy claims which most of them have been accused of by traditional Islamic scholars.

At least one Muslim writer complained that, despite being Muslims, Timur's soldiers ravaged in Asia Minor like barbarians.

Circa 903, the Muslim writer Ibn Rustah was so impressed with the wealth of Srivijaya's ruler that he declared one would not hear of a king who was richer, stronger or with more revenue.

* Abdul Majid Daryabadi ( 1892 – 1977 ), Indian Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur ' an

Bengali Muslims smart under an Islamic prejudice that they are irreligious and disorderly, the impure among the pure, and here was a proto-Bengali writer with a Muslim name, portraying them as all of that and more.

The use of " marbellí " as a gentilic was popularised by the writer and journalist Victor de la Serna ( 1896 – 1958 ), who wrote a series of documentary articles on " The Navy of Andalucía "; in his research he had come upon the Historia de Málaga y Su Provincia ( History of Málaga and the Province ) by Francisco Guillén Robles, who used the word to designate the Muslim inhabitants of Marbella.

* Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur ' an ( b. 1892 ).

These include one Arab Muslim ( diplomat Ali Yahya ), two Arab Christians ( writer Emile Habibi and actor Makram Khoury ), one Circassian ( industrialist Eldin Khatukai ), two Druze ( judge Amin Tarif and government official Kamal Mansour ), and one French Catholic ( theologian Marcel-Jacques Dubois ).

The Hindu term Shahi is used by history writer Al-Biruni to refer to the ruling Hindu dynasty that took over from the Turki Shahi and ruled the region during the period prior to Muslim conquests of the 10th and 11th centuries.

According to Iranian writer Reza Bayegan, Prince Reza Pahlavi is deeply attached to his Shi ' ite Muslim faith.

Weekly regulars on the panel included outspoken freelance writer David Menzies, liberal Muslim Tarek Fatah, journalist and broadcaster Marianne Meed Ward, new media personality Andrew Lawton, CUPE leader Sid Ryan, legal agent and socialist Harry Kopyto and high profile guests including prominent politicians.

* Jalaluddin Umri ( born 1935 ), Indian Muslim writer

* Nasreddin Lebatelier, pseudonym of Jean Michot, Belgian Muslim writer

These include writer, teacher and physician Deepak Chopra ; Trappist monk Father Thomas Keating ; Rabbi Marc Gopin ; Integral philosopher and author Steve McIntosh ; social critic, scientist, Muslim scholar and Noble Prize nominee Munawar Anees ; spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle ; spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ; author Howard Bloom, scientist Rupert Sheldrake ; evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris ; and others.

Ibn Tufail ( c. 1105 – 1185 ) ( full Arabic name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi ; Latinized form: Abubacer Aben Tofail ; Anglicized form: Abubekar or Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail ) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, vizier, and court official.

It was referred to as Qubaibat for the first time at the end of that same century by the writer Abu Shama, who writes in his Book of Two Gardens about a Muslim prince falling into the hands of the Crusaders at this spot.

and Asra Nomani's Muslim Women's Freedom Tour.

" Nomani notes that in his book No god but God, University of Southern California professor Reza Aslan wrote that " misogynistic interpretation " has dogged An-Nisa, 34 because Koranic commentary " has been the exclusive domain of Muslim men.

) and in that novel he portrays Maulana Shibli Nomani as a narrow minded Muslim theologian.

* Shibli Nomani ( Muslim writer, educationist, poet )

Munro-Hay cites the Muslim historian Abu Ja ' far al-Khwarazmi / Kharazmi ( who wrote before 833 ) as stating that the capital of " the kingdom of Habash " was Jarma.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulcasis ), who some have called the father of modern surgery, wrote the Kitab al-Tasrif ( 1000 ), a 30-volume medical encyclopedia which was taught at Muslim and European medical schools until the 17th century.

Avicenna, considered among the most influential medical scholars in history, wrote The Canon of Medicine ( 1025 ) and The Book of Healing ( 1027 ), which remained standard textbooks in both Muslim and European universities until the 17th century.

Kashmir had also now begun to attract European visitors, several of whom wrote of the abject poverty of the vast Muslim peasantry and of the exorbitant taxes under the Sikhs.

That same year, Prem Nath Bazaz, a Kashmiri Pandit journalist wrote: “ The poverty of the Muslim masses is appalling.

" She further wrote that although " Islamic historians agree that the prophet Muhammad never hit a woman, it is also clear that Muslim communities face a domestic violence problem.

According to Toufic Fahd, around the 9th century, Al-Dinawari, an Iranian Kurdish naturalist, wrote the Kitab al-Nabat ( Book of Plants ), in which he deals with the application of meteorology to agriculture during the Muslim Agricultural Revolution.

III ) Meanwhile, Muslim writers during the Crusades period and after wrote of him: " Never have we had to face a bolder or more subtle opponent.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community wrote in his book A Message of Peace:

According to Hamid S. Hosseini, the power of supply and demand was understood to some extent by several early Muslim scholars, such as fourteenth-century Mamluk scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, who wrote:

Specifically, it was developed by the Muslim jurist and historian Al-Maqrizi ( 1364 – 1442 ) who wrote about a particular period in the Mamluk dynasty when the rulers were simultaneously increasing the supply of a lower valued ( copper ) currency and hoarding the more valued ( gold and silver ) currencies.

As Herman of Carinthia wrote in one of his translations of a history of al-Andalus, Odo managed a highly successful encircling envelopment which took the attackers totally by surprise — and the result was a chaotic slaughter of the Muslim forces.

Later on when Foucault went to Iran “ to be there at the birth of a new form of ideas ,” he wrote that the new “ Muslim ” style of politics could signal the beginning of a new form of “ political spirituality ,” not just for the Middle East, but also for Europe, which had adopted the practice of secular politics ever since the French Revolution.

After Constans ' son and successor, Constantine IV had overcome the Muslim siege of Constantinople in 678, he immediately set his sights on restoring communion with Rome: he wrote to Pope Donus suggesting a conference on the matter.

Amadou Bamba was a Muslim mystic and ascetic marabout, a spiritual leader who wrote tracts on meditation, rituals, work, and Qur ' anic study.

The popular Muslim attitude towards Baldwin was recorded by the traveller Ibn Jubair, who wrote that he was called al-khinzir (" the pig ", regarded as an unclean animal ), and his mother Agnes al-khinzira (" the sow ").

Franz Rosenthal wrote in the History of Muslim Historiography:

Al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ) the Muslim Sufi thinker wrote the Alchemy of Happiness, a manual of spiritual instruction throughout the Muslim world and widely practiced today.

The ethical standards of Muslim physicians was first laid down in the 9th century by Ishaq bin Ali Rahawi, who wrote the Adab al-Tabib ( Conduct of a Physician ), the first treatist dedicated to medical ethics.

In March 2011, he wrote an editorial in the Weekly Standard arguing that the United States ' military interventions in Muslim countries ( including the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War ) should not be classified as " invasions ", but rather as " liberations ".

Muslim writers Ibn al-Athir and later al-Maqrizi wrote that the reasoning behind the conquest of Yemen was an Ayyubid fear, that should Egypt fall to Nur al-Din, they could seek refuge in a faraway territory.

In the medieval and early modern period, the field is indebted to Muslim medicine such as Ishaq bin Ali Rahawi ( who wrote the Conduct of a Physician, the first book dedicated to medical ethics ) and Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi ( known as Rhazes in the West ), Jewish thinkers such as Maimonides, Roman Catholic scholastic thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, and the case-oriented analysis ( casuistry ) of Catholic moral theology.